"aware of no thing but art"
Dlugos, Auden, Dugan, Niedecker, Reinhardt
Tim Dlugos:
W.H. Auden:
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
Alan Dugan:
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Lorine Niedecker, to Louis Zukofsky, January 7, 1964:
My lovely husband took me down to the Art Center. The building has box-like wings on the shore of the lake, gives impression of being all glass. If every human being took turns living there for only two days, we'd all come out a lovely new race.
Ad Reinhardt:
Abstract Painting, 1963, oil on canvas, 60" x 60"
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.... a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting—an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art.
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